Chapter 7. Aligning Your Skills to What Is Valued

NOW THAT YOU’VE SEEN HOW to determine which Executive Skills are needed for a job or task, and know how to match your Executive Skills against those required for the task, it’s worth checking to see how valuable those tasks are to the organization for which you work. We’re not talking about official company values here, like those stated in the annual report, but rather what an executive, manager, department, section, group, or even entire organization truly values in the people who work there. What a company values can generally be matched against Executive Skills strengths and weaknesses. It is not likely that everyone in a department or organization will have the same strengths and weaknesses. ...

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